Non-refillable bottle.



No. 632,956. Patented Sept. 12, I899. J. BIESEL.

NUN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Jan. 7, 1899.-

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NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Application filed Jam 7, 1899.

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INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS UNTTED STATES PATENT @FrTc'E.

JOHN BIESEL,OF MCKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,956, dated September 12, 1899.

Application filed January '7, 1899. Serial No. 701,447. (No model-l To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN DIESEL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to certain new and usefulimprovements in non-refillable bottles.

The object of my invention is to construct a bottle of this class which after the contents therein have been once used cannot be refilled.

Briefly described, myinvention consists of an inner stopper having arranged therein a pair of trap-doors which open outwardly and an on ter stopper for locking the innerst-opper in position.

My invention finally consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more full described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views thereof, and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the neck of a bottle, the top thereof being broken away, showing my inner stopper in position, the trap-doors closed in full lines and elevated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the neck of a bottle with my improved stoppers arranged therein. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view on the line :0 00, Fig. 1. Fig. at is a perspective view of the outer stopper. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the inner stopper. Fig. 6 is a top plan view of a bottle with my improved stoppersin position, the top portion of the bottle being broken away. Fig. 7 is an inverted perspective view of the inner stopper. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the trap-doors, which are arranged in the inner stopper. Fig. 9 is a vertical sectional view of the neck of a bottle, showing the arrangement of the two vertical and the annular groove. Fig. 10 is a side view of the bottleneck, partly in section to show the stoppers in position before being locked.

Fig. 11 is a similar view showing the position of the pins when the bottles are locked together. Fig. 12 is a perspective view ofonc of the lockingpins.

Referring to the drawings by referencenumerals, 1 indicates the neck and 2 the body portion of a bottle. The inner face of the neck portion is provided with downwardlyextending grooves 3 and a circular continuous groove 4.

r 5 indicates the inner stopper, which is of cylindrical shape and hollow, as shown, and is provided on its periphery with a pair of elongated lugs 6 7. The stopper 5 has mounted in its lower end a pair of trap-doors S 9,. which are pivotally mounted on the shaft 10. These trap-doors are opened outwardly by the force of the liquid counteracting the spring 11, mounted on the outer face thereof. This spring is adapted to keep the trap-doors normally in engagement with the annular flange 12, formed on the inner face of the stopper 5 at the lower end thereof. The upper edge of the stopper 5 is formed with a pair of recesses 13 diametrically opposite each other. 14 indicates the outer stopper, which is of cylindrical shape and hollow, as shown. This outer stopper 11 is provided at its lower end with a pair of lugs 15 16, diametrically opposite each other, and also with a pairof apertures 16 to receive the fastening-pins 17. These fasteningpins are constructed of any suitable metallic material. 18 indicates the ordinary cork stopper used for closing bottles of this character.

The operation of my improved non-refillable bottle is as follows: The two stoppers are placed with their ends together, in which position they are inserted into the bottleneck, the pins 17 being forced upward within the recesses 16 in the stopper 14 and the elongated lugs 6 7 and lugs 15 16 engaging in the vertical grooves 3. It will be observed that the apertures or recesses 13 are arranged in the stopper 5 at the quarter-turn to the position of the loosely-mounted locking-pins in the apertures or recesses 16' of the stopper 14:. When the two stoppers have been placed in the bottle-neck in this position, the outer stopper 14 is then given one quarter-turn, which will cause the lugs 15 1G to move out of registering engagement with the vertical rco grooves 3 into locking engagement with the annular groove 4 and bring the recesses 13 and 16 into registering engagement, so that the metal locking-pins 17 will fall into the recesses or apertures 13, as shown in Fig. 11 of the drawings, securely locking the two stoppers together, while the stoppers themselves are locked within the bottle-neck by reason of the lugs 15 1 6 engagingin annular groove 4. When it is desired to empty the bottle or use a portion of its contents, the inclination of the bottle will cause the pressure of the contents against the trap-doors 8 9 to overcome the tension of the spring 11, so that the liquid may be discharged. When the bottle is returned to the upright position, the pressure of the liquid will be removed from the trapdoors, and the spring 11 will immediately reseat the same and prevent the introduction of any material into the bottle.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. In a bottle of the class described, the combination with the neck having a pair of oppositely-disposed vertical grooves and an annular groove, of an inner hollow stopper having oppositely-disposed lugs on its exterior and provided at its lower end with an inwardlyextending seat, a pair of trap-doors pivotally mounted upon a common shaft, a tensionspring engaging each of said trap-doors to hold the same normally in engagement with said seat, an outer hollow stopper having exterior lugs adapted to engage the annular groove in the bottle-neck, and means connected to the lower end of said outer stopper for engagement with the upper end of the inner stopper to lock the same thereto when the stoppers are in position, substantially as described.

2. In a bottle of the class described, the combination with the neck thereof provided with interior vertical and an exterior annular groove, of a hollow inner stopper having exterior elongated lugs and an interior annular seat, a pair of trap-doors pivotally mounted on a common shaft within said inner stopper, means secured to said doors for holding the same normally in engagement with said annular seat, an outer hollow stopper provided with lugs adapted to engage in the interior annular groove in the bottle-neck, and carrying means for engagement with the inner stopper to lock the same thereto when both inner stopper when both of said stoppers are in position, substantially as described.

4. In a bottle of the class described, the combination with the bottle-neck having oppositely-disposcd interior vertical grooves and an interior annular groove, of an inner hollow stopper provided with exterior elongated lugs and an interior annular seat, a pair of trap-doors pivotally mounted upon a common shaft within said inner stopper, a spring engaging each of said doors to hold the same normally in engagement with said annular seat, said stopper being further provided in its upper end with a pair of oppositely-disposed apertures, an outer hollow stopper provided with exterior lugs adapted to engage in the interior annular groove in the bottleneck, and a pair of oppositely-disposed pins secured in the lower end of the outer stopper and adapted to engage in the apertures in the inner stopper to lock the stoppers together when in position in the bottle-neck, substantially as described.

5. A bottle-neck having oppositely-disposed interior vertical grooves and an interior ansame to the inner stopper, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN BIESEL. lVitnesses:

JOHN NOLAND, E. ARTHUR. 

